Post by Biggles on Dec 10, 2011 23:42:15 GMT 1
1. Teaching Maths In 1970
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100..
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is his profit?
2. Teaching Maths In 1980
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is 80% of the price.
What is his profit?
3. Teaching Maths In 1990
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is £80.
How much was his profit?
4. Teaching Maths In 2000
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is £80 and his profit is £20.
Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
5. Teaching Maths In 2005
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and
inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the
preservation of our woodlands.
Your assignment: Discuss how the birds and squirrels might feel as
the logger cut down their homes just for a measly profit of £20.
6. Teaching Maths In 2009
A logger is arrested for trying to cut down a tree in case it may be
offensive to Muslims or other religious groups not consulted in the
application for the felling license. He is also fined a £100 as his chainsaw
is in breach of Health and Safety legislation as it deemed too dangerous and
could cut something. He has used the chainsaw for over 20 years without
incident however he does not have the correct certificate of competence and
is therefore considered to be a recidivist and habitual criminal. His DNA is
sampled and his details circulated throughout all government agencies. He
protests and is taken to court and fined another £100 because he is such an
easy target.
When he is released he returns to find Gypsies have cut down half
his wood to build a camp on his land. He tries to throw them off but is
arrested, prosecuted for harassing an ethnic minority, imprisoned and fined
a further £100. While he is in jail again the Gypsies cut down the rest of
his wood and sell it on the black market for £100 cash. They also have a
departure BBQ of squirrel and pheasant and leave behind several tonnes of
rubbish and asbestos sheeting.
The forester on release is warned that failure to clear the fly
tipped rubbish immediately at his own cost is an offence. He complains and
is arrested for environmental pollution, breach of the peace and invoiced
£12,000 plus VAT for safe disposal costs by a regulated government
contractor.
Your assignment: How many times is the logger going to have to be
arrested and fined before he realizes that he is never going to make £20
profit by hard work, give up, sign onto the dole and live off the state for
the rest of his life?
7. Teaching Maths In 2010
A logger doesn’t sell a lorry load of timber because he can’t get a
loan to buy a new lorry because his bank has spent all his and their money
on a derivative of securitized debt related to sub-prime mortgages in Surrey
and lost the lot, with only some government money left to pay a few
million-pound bonuses to their senior directors and the traders who made the
biggest losses.
The logger struggles to pay the £1,200 road tax on his old lorry.
However, as it was built in the 1970s it no longer meets the emissions
regulations and he is forced to scrap it.
Some Bulgarian loggers buy the lorry from the scrap merchant and put
it back on the road. They undercut everyone on price for haulage! send their
cash back home, while claiming unemployment for themselves and their
relatives. If questioned they speak no English and it is easier to deport
them at the governments expense. Following their holiday back home they
return to the UK with different names and fresh girls and start again.
The logger protests, is accused of being a bigoted racist and as his name is
on the side of his old lorry he is forced to pay £1,500 registration fees as
a gang master.
The Government borrows more money to pay more to the bankers as
bonuses are not cheap. The parliamentarians feel they are missing out and
claim the difference on expenses and allowances.
You do the maths.
8. Teaching Maths 2017
أ المسجل تبيع حموله شاحنة من الخشب من اجل 100 دولار. صاحب تكلفة
الانتاج 80 من
الثمن. ما هو الربح له
